attended first the Vienna Conservatory in Austria, and after that the
National Conservatory in New York where one of his teachers was Antonin
Dvořák. His primary energy was directed to teaching. For six years he
was the director of the Colorado College Conservatory, and from 1924
until his death head of the composition department at the Juilliard
School of Music in New York. As a composer, Goldmark is most often
remembered for the _Negro Rhapsody_ and the _Requiem_ for orchestra, the
latter inspired by Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Goldmark died in New
York City on March 6, 1936.
It is with the _Negro Rhapsody_ (1923) that Goldmark is most often
represented on concert and semi-classical concerts. As its title
suggests the work is made up of Negro melodies. After a slow